Owner of Banksy’s ‘Season’s Greeting’ ditches museum plans
John Brandler, an Essex-based art dealer and gallery owner, has backed away from plans to open a street art museum in Port Talbot after purchasing Banksy’s Season’s Greetings mural. Shortly […]
‘Christina Kruse: Base and Balance’ at the Helwaser Gallery
‘To be a modernist,’ writes Glenn Adamson in a forthcoming catalogue, ‘was to be in constant breathless encounter with the new: abstraction, utopian politics, the path-breaking idioms of Cubism, Constructivism, […]
Guggenheim employees motion to unionize
Last week, Local 30 of the International Union of Operating Engineers (Local 30) filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to form a union on behalf of employees […]
At 500, Tintoretto gets his first retrospective in the US
Jacopo Tintoretto, one of Venice’s greatest Renaissance artists, is currently having his first retrospective in the US and North America to celebrate the 500th anniversary of his birth. While other […]
Glass skyscrapers: a great environmental folly that could have been avoided
Henrik Schoenefeldt, University of Kent New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has declared that skyscrapers made of glass and steel “have no place in our city or our Earth […]
An intimate, arresting exhibition highlights the hard work of living queer
Leigh Boucher, Macquarie University Queerdom, an exhibition showing at the Imperial Hotel in Erksineville, is an arresting and unsettling archive of queer and trans performances in Sydney. A collaboration […]
The global Goethe
Alain Badiou, a paradoxical Wagnerian, defends the idea which asserts that Germany’s ambitions for worldwide recognition can only be achieved through its art; if that’s the case then Goethe is […]
